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Today, writing team Rashida Jones and Will McCormack. Their new film, The Invite, takes on the realities of marriage in middle age, told over the course of one dinner party that goes into salacious territory. Jones and McCormack have been mining stories like this together for decades and finding the funny inside the painful. We are never above a laugh. There's nothing that's grave enough for us not to laugh about because that's how we process our pain.

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